Jukuja Dolly Snell | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Jukuja Dolly Snell. - click to view larger image

born about 1933, Wangkajunga language group, Nampijin skin group, Fitzroy Crossing, Mangkaja Arts

[At] Pankupiti, I told my mother, ‘Can you kill that animal with woolly hair?’ It was a sheep. ‘I won’t kill it,’ she said. ‘It belongs to the white man.’

Dolly was born at Kurtal. When her father died, she travelled with her mother to Balgo, then Louisa Downs and Kupartiya (Bohemia Downs) stations, where she worked and married her childhood sweetheart, Ngilpirr Spider Snell.

A square multicoloured painting on canvas divided into three horizontal segments, with three turquoise, green and orange concentric circles in a line across the centre, which rises slightly at the right side. These are surrounded by pink, brown and green tree-like motifs on a black background. Above and below this central section is a line of yellow then lines of turquoise separated by green discs on red stripes. - click to view larger image — *Jitirr*

A multicoloured square painting on canvas with a dark blue oval inside a green border in the centre and four dark blue circles with green borders evenly spaced around it, on an aqua background. The centre is surrounded by borders in pink, orange, green, red and pale blue, with a row of brown and pink motifs running down both sides. The corners have a roughly triangular shape in light blue with a lime green border. - click to view larger image — *Kartamarti*

Ngilpirr Spider Snell

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